paintEnventargs^ e

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Guess I was trying to make it simple, but the answer is dependent on the information.
My goal is to draw a test set of text on a GUI written using C++ d in Visual Studio.
That said I am also in a learning curve . I did some digging around before all this and found:
The generic form is:

After coping/ pasting in to my do- nothing program/window- just to make it easy - .this example does not make the connection between the arguments in the parenthesis of the function : DrawStringPointF(ByVal e As PaintEventArgs) and calling this function - DrawStringPointF(?).
For whomever replies, Could you supply a complete set of code from top to bottom that just "puts text in a GUI" in C++ using Visual Studio. If I have complete set of code, then I can figure the link.I have been reading text pages forteh last 3 days and have had to slowly build programs becasue the authors do't give it all at once.

I am not asking for any help - seriously- but to show my entire problem. My other problem is reading a text file to display , sort, 3 ways and then redisplay.
Example
The following code example is designed for use with Windows Forms, and it requires PaintEventArgs^e, which is a parameter of the Paint event handler. The code performs the following actions:

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